Today, we made it to Gibraltar, kind of a significant step in our way to the Mediterranean. We were extremely exited about the trip and wishing to enjoy the cruise. To most of our surprise, a thick fog emerged as we were approaching the straight of Gibraltar, and we could not see more than 50 meters around us as we moved full speed in the currents all along the straight. No need to say that we will plan a new crossing of the Gibraltar straight in the future :-).
Arrival to Gibraltar as the fog clears up
The "Rock" of Gibraltar is not a myth. You just see it as you approach and the fog clears up. As expected, in this area, there is extremely intense traffic of all sorts of boats. While you are expecting tankers and other cargo ships to cruise along their access lines, we were surprise to see how many pleasure boats were wandering around in the fog without AIS system. We had to activate the radar for the whole crossing as the only way to be able to safely monitor the traffic ahead of us.